Pour out Your mercy upon our land instead of the judgment we deserve. Deliver us from pornography, human trafficking, pedophilia, homosexuality, abortion, murder, stealing, lying, corruption, fraud, destruction, and violence. Keep us from being polluted by all that pollutes our culture, so that we may come before You with pure hearts and clean hands. Expose all sin in us and wash us clean. I am not pleading for Your grace because I think we deserve it. As a people who once knew You, we are worse than nations that sin against You that have never known You. But I come because my heart breaks for the brokenness of my nation’s people. And I know You are a God who is merciful.
Lord, I surrender any fear and anger in me over the things I see happening in my nation today. May these things I see provoke me to pray rather than to criticize, complain, or to withdraw in fear. I know that whatever I ask in Your name, Jesus, You will do, so that the Father may be glorified. Help me not to become more preoccupied with the problems I see than with Your power to change things. Help me to be an instrument of bringing Your power to reign in this land.
Lift the blinders off us as a nation so that we can see the truth about who You are and what our condition is. Where sin abounds in our nation, may Your grace abound even more. Forgive us for our pride that makes us think we can live without You. Lord, just as You wept over Jerusalem, saying if they had only known the day of their visitation, I pray that the believers in this nation will weep over our nation in repentance and recognize the day of our visitation. Align our hearts with Yours and heal our land. In Jesus name, we thank you and love you.
“O Lord, hear my voice, Let your ears be
attentive to my cry for mercy.”
Psalm 130:2